Mon Petit Chou
- Date of creation : 1973
- Country : Germany
- Duration : 00:08:00
- Technical characteristics : Black & white, Sound
- Artist - Author : Ulrike Rosenbach
Description
"The video work was created as a closed-circuit activity in the studio. It shows the artist's head, which in slow, ritualized movements ties the individual leaves of a head of cabbage around her head, which transforms into a "head of cabbage" in just a few minutes. The sound is accompanied by an excerpt from a French chanson, the lyrics of which deal with a woman's devotion to a man. Ironically taking up the French term of endearment "mon petit chou", the artist wants to draw attention to the absurdity of female-male behavior in a playful way."
(Source: Gerhard Glüher (ed.), Ulrike Rosenbach : Wege zur Medienkunst 1969 bis 2004, Köln, Wienand, 2005, p.217.)
- Type : video
Publications and Periodicals which reference the work
Gerhard Glüher (ed.), Ulrike Rosenbach : Wege zur Medienkunst 1969 bis 2004, Köln, Wienand, 2005.